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Pray for Monsignor Michael Courtney, his family, and Burundi.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...31229/ap_on_re_af/vatican_burundi_nuncio

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May the memory of the Priest Michael be eternal.

O Lord, receive the soul of Your Priest-servant Michael, who has departed from this life, and lead it to rest in a place of light, happiness, and peace, where there is neither pain nor suffering, neither grief nor sighing. And since You are a gracious God and the Lover of Mankind, remember his years of service to You and to Your people, forgive him every sin he has committed by thought, or word, or deed, for there is not a man who lives and does not sin, for You alone are without sin and You are the Resurrection and the Life.


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Dear Forum:

In diplomatese, the "Papal Ambassador" is officially known as the Apostolic Nuncio (previously/commonly known as the "Papal Nuncio.")

As recently as the last century, the Apostolic Nuncio, by comity, was elected, or ipso facto acted, as the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps of any given host country.

Currently, Apostolic Nuncios carry the dignity, at the least, of an Archbishop, as the slain Archbishop Courtney did. I stand corrected but I have not come across priests or monsignors acting or being appointed as Apostolic Nuncios.

Below is an excerpt from a communique from the Vatican Secretariat of State on the assasination of the Apostolic Nuncio to the Republic of Burundi:

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Archbishop Michael Aidan Courtney, of Irish origin, was appointed apostolic nuncio of Burundi by His Holiness John Paul II on August 18, 2000. Previously, he had lent his inestimable collaboration in pontifical representations in South Africa, Senegal, India, Yugoslavia and Egypt. Before being appointed to Bujumbura, for almost five years he served as permanent observer of the Holy See to the Council of Europe at Strasbourg, France.

With the death of Archbishop Courtney, the list of missionaries who have given their life for the Gospel during 2003 grows longer. And now, for the first time, the name of a pontifical representative is added to that list of generous faithful. May the Lord grant them eternal rest!


As an aside, almost 60% of the total population of the East Central African republic of Burundi are Catholic.

May the Archbishop rest in eternal peace!

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Very Hazardous duty. God will reward him for his faith and courage.

May his memory be eternal.

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Eternal memory to Archbishop Michael.

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Blessed Repose and Eternal Memory.

Archbishop Michael is the latest of 29 people killed while in service to the Church this year.
EWTN has posted a list:

http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=42490

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Dear John

The troubling facet on the assasination of Archbishop Courtney is that he is the FIRST Apostolic Nuncio to be murdered while in the diplomatic service of the Church!

Because of such major implication that his murder has spawned in diplomatic circles, the protagonists in the Burundi civil war took turns in blaming the other for the atrocity.

The Apostolic Nuncio (and the Vatican) during his tenure in Burundi displayed always a charitable attitude equally to both camps in the strife.

A historical marker in Vatican diplomacy has just been staked!

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Memory Eternal!

Lord have mercy!


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